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Identification of Mycobacterium neoaurumIsolated from a Neutropenic Patient with Catheter-Related Bacteremia by 16S rRNA Sequencing
1 Jan 2000
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A rapidly growing pigmented mycobacterial strain with an ambiguous biochemical profile was isolated from the blood culture taken through the Hickman catheter of a 9-year-old girl with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Whole-cell fatty acid analysis showed that the best match profile was that of Mycobacterium aurum, but the similarity index was only 0.217, meaning that there were no good matches between the isolate...
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